Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blocks of all automatic pistols, such as the Colt employed by Sacco, are filed by hand, each gun leaves a characteristic cartridge impression which can be identified "as accurately as a finger-print." Sharp-eyed police picked up a cartridge near the scene of the crime that bore the "fingerprint" of Sacco's gun block. Sacco not only was found with the weapon on his person but admitted owning it for a long time, stating that he had taken it from home just "to keep the children from playing with it." This evidence, not properly stressed at the trial, undoubtedly...
Birthdays. Louis Maurer, last surviving artist of the staff of Currier & Ives, famed print firm, 100; Elihu Root, 87; Charles Michael Schwab...
Awareness of the necessity of planning for the future is emphasized by the fact that similar crises are liable to reoccur with rhythmic regularity. Modern civilization is founded on technology, which is essentially planned and scientific. A blue-print plan for the future would, then, bring our economic system into harmony with the technical efficiency which created it. No rule of thumb procedure is sufficient to bring the world back to a smoother running order...
...Glass-Steagall bill's purpose was fivefold: 1) to open the Federal Reserve's doors to easier borrowing by hard-pressed banks; 2) to attract hoarded money back into bank deposits; 3) to print new paper money; 4) to help the Federal Reserve finance the Treasury's deficit; 5) to free gold to meet foreign demands...
...elastic currency was one of the Federal Reserve's original purposes. Each of the twelve district banks was authorized to print its own paper money which became the joint obligation of the Federal Reserve bank and of the U. S. Treasury to pay gold on demand. Each bank of issue must hold in actual gold or gold certificates at least 40% of the amount of its outstanding currency. Likewise behind each dollar of Reserve currency must be 100¢ of commercial paper or of gold or of gold certificates. U. S. Government bonds and other Treasury obligations (although eligible for rediscount...